# Receive an email for only new topics?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/receive-an-email-for-only-new-topics/43423>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [Abril 29, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/receive-an-email-for-only-new-topics/43423 "2016-04-29T02:13:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![steko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@steko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/steko)\
**Post date:** [Abril 29, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/receive-an-email-for-only-new-topics/43423/6 "2016-04-29T13:22:01Z")

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> this is kind of an obscure option that most people don’t need.

While we’re at it, changing the (!) icon to a text label “follow” would help a lot making the entire feature more discoverable. I don’t think any of my users use it if not instructed to.

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